A law firm’s job offer to a New York University law student was rescinded on Tuesday for what the firm described as “inflammatory comments” about Hamas’s attack that killed at least 1,200 Israelis.
And at Harvard, student groups began to take back their signatures on a letter that blamed Israel for the violence.
The actions were part of a wave of fallout on campuses for students, who are deeply polarized over the fighting.
At N.Y.U., Ryna Workman, the president of the university’s Student Bar Association, wrote in a message to the group on Tuesday that “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.”
“This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary,” Mx. Workman wrote in the Student Bar Association bulletin. “I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.”
The backlash was swift.
By evening, the law firm, Winston & Strawn, said the comments “profoundly conflict” with its values and without naming the student, said it rescinded its offer of employment.
The same day, the dean of the law school, Troy A. McKenzie, repudiated the student’s remarks. “This message was not from N.Y.U. School of Law as an institution and does not speak for the leadership of the law school,” Mr. McKenzie wrote.
It’s notable that the people have changed their opinions on the conflict while institutions and the government have yet to catch up. I would suggest that we’re a generation away from a significant change in posture across the world.
There is definitely a big change between generations.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2022/07/11/american-views-of-israel/
I think Israel has about 10-20 years of western support left to find a structural solution to their situation, otherwise they will start facing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
I think they also got a lot of sympathy after the attacks, but it hasn’t even been a week yet and their war crimes over the past few days are quickly eroding their support.
And just wait until the whole world realizes that Netanyahu was informed by Egypt and let it happen to bolster his popularity.
This was supposed to be Israel’s 9/11 or bataclan, where the whole western world rallies around them in support.
But it seems to me that this will end with even less support for them than ever.
Yeah what Hamas did was terrible but it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Respect is a two way street and it’s clear neither side has any respect for the other. This whole operation was named after Al Aqsa due to a bunch of messed up stuff happening in Jerusalem over the past few years:
In April 2021, during both Passover and Ramadan, the site was a focus of tension between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Jewish settlers broke an agreement between Israel and Jordan and performed prayers and read from the Torah inside the compound, an area normally off limits to non-Muslims. On 14 April, Israeli police entered the area and forcibly cut wires to speakers in minarets around the mosque, silencing the call to prayer, claiming the sound was interfering with an event by the Israeli president at the Western Wall. On 16 April, seventy thousand Muslims prayed in the compound around the mosque, the largest gathering since the beginning of the COVID pandemic; police barred most from entering the structure itself. In May 2021, hundreds of Palestinians were injured following clashes in the compound after reports of Israel’s intention to proceed to evict Palestinians from land claimed by Israeli settlers.
On 15 April 2022, Israeli forces entered the Temple Mount and used tear gas shells and sound bombs to disperse Palestinians who, they said, were throwing stones at policemen. Some Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque, where they were detained by Israeli police. Over 150 people ended up injured and 400 arrested.
On April 5, 2023, Israeli police raided the temple, saying “agitators” who had thrown stones and fired fireworks at the police, had barricaded themselves and worshippers inside. Following the incident, militants fired rockets from Gaza into southern Israel.
Doesn’t matter the religion, Fundies ruin everything.
Lmao law firms aren’t exactly known for their pro-Palestine stance
At least he has principles.
Israel has killed even more Palestinians. They do it slow and steady. Also, Israel is no longer “the only democracy in the Middle East”. It is now an autocratic nation with Dear Leader Netanyahu Xi Ping as the Dictator for life. Why then do the West continue to support Israel when they are no different from their Semitic cousins?
Because they were attacked. And Hamas attacked civilians specifically.
I don’t love what Israel has done a lot of the time, but you can’t be surprised that the world is supporting Israel right now.
I wish there was a non-violent solution, but even suggesting something like that right now seems ignorant of reality.
Good! Saying “I will not condemn Palestinian resistance” at this specific time is a quite literal endorsement of Hamas. It’s the only “resistance” and it is 100% based on slaughter of innocents (both Israeli and Palestinians).
A really horrible stance to take, with the very much expected consequences.
This is why you keep your personal political views to yourself.
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When you are job hunting, you NEVER want you name associated with politics. Doing so will always lead you to be passed over.
Which stifles speech about actual issues because it might hurt your job prospects.
It is terrible that only the wealthy get to speak their minds because they can afford to.
Especially when the job you’re loking for is at a law firm…in NYC…and the political comments are essentially saying “the Jews are responsible for the bad thing that happened to the Jews”
That’s not exactly going to be great for your career.
Yeah it might not be right, but it’s reality.
Also, them being a lawyer, knowing what not to say to avoid pissing off the wrong people is pretty important. Even if it’s something they truly believe, if it’s something that could piss off a jury or judge they might just be living in their soapbox after they’re out of a job.
I know we’d expect better from a judge but, again, look at reality, and then juries might not like you because your tie doesn’t match your shirt.
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1200? And in the article title you share it’s 1000
Keep making up figures yes
At least 1200 is still more than 1000. It’s not wrong.
You can’t just increase the figure because it has no upper boundary. You can’t say 5k just because it’s “at least 10”.
Btw, there has been 308 Israeli casualties since 2008 in this regard
308 plus the 1200…
1200 is a number provided by Israel.
On the day of the attack it was 200, what happened since? Not following exactly
- they found more bodies after the first news update
- hamas killed more people
- people died of their injuries after having been injured
the killing didn’t stop just because they published one number, that’s not the end of things.
here’s a source for the 1200 number. That’s deaths so far, that they know about. If the number is higher tomorrow, don’t act like it was a lie.
you satisfied?
People have died of their injuries or bodies have been found in the rubble.
